Kansas City is the site of a potential Messi vs. Ronaldo World Cup showdown. It's also the site of a $25.8 million, taxpayer-funded "World Cup Jail" — built by a company that constructed detainee facilities in Guantanamo Bay. Which isn't even ready in time for the World Cup.

.@KansasCity and @MayorLucasKC blew past the deadline to release a Human Rights Action Plan on the World Cup yesterday with no statement or explanation. In fact of all of the US host cities, Boston is the only one to have released the plan, which is required by FIFA.

Had the pleasure of hearing Dylan read this one at Metro Gallery during AWP. Told him @bruisermag is the place for hardcore punk lit. Read this one, it rules.

Got a new flash fiction piece at @bruisermag about first loves, fast music, and belonging (among other things) bruisermag.com/pyles_powervi…

Uh oh, they’re realizing that all prisons are immoral tools of fascism and not just ICE prisons! The dots are being connected folks.

Ok I need to address this: Local organizers with labor orgs, abolitionist orgs and city elected officials in Kansas City have been organizing strategic campaigns against this facility for over a month! This happened AFTER Platform Ventures, the capital firm that owns the warehouse, announced in a pissed off pouty statement that they weren't selling the warehouse to DHS. They cited "threats to their families" among other things meant to garner sympathy and slander the grassroots organizing that thwarted their plans. This person cares enough to catch an arson charge, but not enough to know the basic updates on this monumental development hours after the fact? From everything I can tell, local news filmed this! KMBC was on the scene reporting on the aforementioned announcement and this person walked up in broad daylight in flip flops in February and did this on camera. You can tell from the camera movement this is a big camera all the way zoomed in on a tripod. Stop giving this lady credit for cancelling the sale! Individual action will not save us, and it didn't here. Coordinated, collective, strategic action is what stopped this deal. Dumbass shit like this has incredibly high potential to blow back on the organizers who actually stopped this, and honestly I wouldn't put it past DHS or this capital firm to do this themselves to shape their narrative.

Birkenstocks, no mask, broad daylight, filmed while it’s happening yet nobody arrested, matches and bbq lighter fluid. But most importantly, this happened hours AFTER an organized campaign WON and the owners of this facility said they would not sell to DHS. Sus as fuck tbh.

I hate that we have to do this again but y’all realize they pick the ones who might be dangerous and give them the Super Bowl to neutralize them, right?

I believe in living. assata, thank you.

Comparing KC's subsidized grocery store to the DMV is ironically very accurate. Just like Missouri DMVs, the store is *not* government-ran. Both have a pointless private middleman that just makes it shittier

Ring cameras are partnering with Axon (makers of police body cameras, among other police tech) to make a new feature that allows people to opt-in to police being able to live-stream everything the doorbell camera sees AND allow police to request footage directly from users

Mikhail Bakunin: “I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.”

Prisoners at “Alligator Alcatraz” say their living conditions amount to torture: they report maggot-infested and inadequate food, inability to bathe, frequent flooding, denial of religious practices, and other severe hardships. truthout.org/articles/alliga…

Every extension of surveillance from the police state will be used to maintain fascism and eliminate ( neutralize) those who are most deeply vulnerable within it. A robust police state is not the result of fascism, but a prerequisite for it.

Sometime around noon today, about 100-150 Patriot Front affiliated neo-Nazis were dropped off outside of the Liberty Memorial in Kansas City Missouri. x.com/salusxpopuli/status/19…

.@QuintonLucasKC did you approve this? Im getting reports that police are PROTECTING these Nazis as they threaten the safety of our city. x.com/salusxpopuli/status/19…

Nazis are literally marching en masse through your city as we speak.

Was listening to Built to Spill in the car and walked into Broadway Cafe where they were also listening to Built to Spill. Will be a good day.

God this band rocked.

I guess another responsibility as mayor is to blatantly mislead an entire city about what their tax dollars will be spent on and why. And then refuse to walk it back when called out.